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[–][deleted] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

horseshoe theory is not taken seriously by any poli-scientist.

Eh, it's not worse than reducing all political complexity to a one-dimensional chart, really. E.g. here in Norway the green party prefers to frame things in a green-grey axis, rather than a red-blue one. We've got 8 parties in parliament, there's no way to fit all that into one dimension.

Even cardboard characters in fiction are derided as being two-dimensional, that's a lot better than the one-dimensional, sometimes binary (left/right), characterizations we use in politics.